Descobri ontem que Yale oferece alguns cursos online. Sem provas, sem notas, sem contato. Você baixa as aulas, seja em html, mp3 ou avi. Tenho descoberto que ler 100 páginas por semana em uma matéria é algo fora do comum em Yale. E que nota máxima não quer dizer publicável. Isso tudo é muito diferente (e mais tranqüilo) do que o que certos professores que querem conferir importância a seus cursos tornando-os incrivelmente exigentes fazem. Esse aí é um cara considerado harsh grader:

Now look, I was an undergraduate once. And I know what it is to write a typical undergraduate paper. You sit down the night before and you had a couple of ideas. You thought about it maybe for a half an hour. And you meant to get to it sooner, but you had a lot of other things to do. And you throw it off in a couple of hours and maybe stay up late. You know it's not the worst thing you ever wrote, and it's not the best thing you ever wrote, and it has a couple of nice ideas, but maybe it could be better. It's sort of a satisfactory job. Yale says satisfactory means C. So many of you will start off the semester writing that kind of paper.